David Heun

For much of the past few years, U.K. railroad systems have been using smartphones to display tickets as bar codes or other forms of digital fares.

Fraudsters are licking their chops at the thought of infiltrating person-to-person payment systems and enabling a never-ending flow of small-value transactions — with the potential to strike bigger accounts.

Kenya Commercial Bank is working with Visa to bring the first mobile payment solution to its customers in East Africa that utilizes a quick-response code for e-commerce and in-store transactions.

Dwolla is pitching its faster payments system to the Federal Reserve Bank as it contemplates the facets of a future system in the U.S.

American Express spend a record amount of marketing and promotions in 2016, following Costco's departure.

Payment companies and other financial institutions were victimized less than health care, educational institutions and government agencies.

Rather than killing off the plastic card, smartphones are strengthening it. Many issuers' card accounts are more valuable than ever, with perks made possible only through the development of smartphone apps.

European mobile point of sale provider iZettle has added UnionPay cards to the menu of credit and debit cards its merchants can accept.

Mastercard's deal for a controlling stake in VocaLink represented the largest transaction value in payments in 2016 for an industry that saw an 18% increase in acquisition volume.

Consumer adoption numbers indicate most mobile wallets are stuck in the mud, but key wallet providers have made enough advances in other critical areas to suggest there is still potential in this market, Celent researchers say.

After more than two years of work on its real-time payments rail, The Clearing House senses it has the proper plumbing in place to make any new system hum. And the one thing it wants to make clear: This isn't your father's ACH.

NCR Corp. has launched its FastLane Mobile Shopper software in the Globus hypermarket chain in Russia, citing it as the first supermarket/department store in Europe to offer the scan-and-go system.

Over the past five years, the slow-but-steady rise of mobile wallets seemed to signal the end of the plastic card era. But that's not how things played out.

2017 promises to be a defining year for many in the payments industry. Here's a look at what to expect.

Mastercard is launching a mobile payment platform to help farmers be more aware of the needs for produce sales in East Africa, calling it the first use case from technology developed at Mastercard Labs in Nairobi, Kenya, which opened in 2014.

The Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunication is exploring the potential of distributed ledger technology for banks to provide real-time reconciliation of their databases for accounts they hold in other banks in a foreign currency.

Discover and PayPal have signed an agreement to make PayPal payments available to Discover cardholders, acquirers and merchants.

Bank technology provider D+H Corp. is expanding its role in the expected launch of The Clearing House Real-Time Payments System by offering banks cloud-based testing to simulate a connection to that system.

Fraudsters, aware of the scope of the Payment Card Industry data security standards, increasingly deploy fraud methods that fall outside of PCI safety.

Around the same time PayPal spun off from eBay Inc. to become its own company last year, it also took on the global money transfer provider Xoom. This acquisition may have been overshadowed by PayPal's bigger news, but it remains key to the company's post-eBay strategy.